About the Authors

Gen Tsujio

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan, Molecular Oncology and Therapeutics, Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan, Cancer Center for Translational Research, Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Masakazu Yashiro

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

i21496f@omu.ac.jp

Affiliations Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan, Molecular Oncology and Therapeutics, Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan, Cancer Center for Translational Research, Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Yuichiro Miki

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan, Molecular Oncology and Therapeutics, Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Kohei Matsuoka

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Koji Maruo

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan, Molecular Oncology and Therapeutics, Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan, Cancer Center for Translational Research, Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Mami Yoshii

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Tatsuro Tamura

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Katsunobu Sakurai

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Osaka City General Hospital, Osaka, Japan

Takahiro Toyokawa

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Naoshi Kubo

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Osaka City General Hospital, Osaka, Japan

Shigeru Lee

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Tomohisa Okuno

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Kishu Kitayama

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Go Masuda

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Masaichi Ohira

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Kiyoshi Maeda

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.